Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-04
4 NORTHERN PASADENA,
Woodland Proposes to Adopt st. Johns
"Boem" Plan.

Woodland Proposes to Adopt st. Johns
"Boem" Plan.
Now that the Supreme Court has decided
that municipalities can enforce ordinances
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks,
several towns in the northern portion of
the State are talking of taking steps look
ing to the closing of all low dives and dis
reputable beer shops. Woodland will be
the town to take the initiative step in this
section. The first step proposed by the
Woodlandites, is Twelve Hours Day for
the Dram-shops" One of the Woodland
papers says:
why should not the saloons be closed
at o'clock, and allow those who are en-
ployed in selling liquors time for recreation
as well as those who are employed in our
dry goods stores, grocery stores and meat
markets? Why the man who sells liquor
should have to work longer hours than
other laborers, is question which has
never been satisfactorily explained to the
average mind. We suggest to the advocates
of the early-closing movement that they
demand that its tayors shall extend to sa-
loon clerks, and that license to sell LIQUORS
shall be other days than Sundays, or the
same as all other business houses. Is the
liquor traffic so urgent that ii must require
the bartenders to constantly be in readiness
to mix up the toddies for those who patron
ize the saloons under cover of night for fear
they may be seen indulging through the
day? If this is the case, the liquor traffic
by night must have most dangerous and
demoralizing effect and its results should
be arrested by allowing the liquor dealer to
close his place of business at O'Clock in
the evening, that he may attend church,
l.,
| the clerks and employees of other business
| houses"
The Woodland Democrat is also in favor
of clean newspapers and deals rough blows
! at sensational and filthy sheets, as follows:
The people Of Woodland are waking up
| to the interests of the rising young. and we
shall be very much mistaken if Woodland
| is not the Pasadena of the Sacramento val
| ley in short time. We shall also be mis-
| taken if the people of beautiful Wood
| land do not soon demand of her daily
journals higher tone of morals and less of
| the sensational, which now predominates.
/ The people of Yolo county cannot afford to
pay for the kind of literature that will
| educate their children to be thieves and
vagabonds. 1t has not been more than q
| few weeks since it was stated by public
| speaker in this place that the press of the
! day was curse to a high state of civiliza-
! ton. While we believe the statement to
| be true, the people are as much to blame
| as the press, because the press has ceased
to lead the people, and it only gives them
| what they crave. Heretofore the people
| have not required the press to educate
them against crime, and thereby prevent it
| as much as possible, but TO give it to them
| after it was committed. in detail, and en-
bellish it with as much of the sensational
| as the English language would admit Of,
| and they have been accommodated to the
| full extent. and have not failed to receive
| the bitter fruits thereof